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Volume 6 ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937 Number 44 POLICE TO ‘CRACK DOWN’ ON PARKERS Ashland Schools To Open Tuesday INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT ANTICIPATED THE MORE we »<•<• of foreign 1 treat les, the more certain It appear« they're pact with gun powder 111 Nation* protesting the Shooting of non-combatant* In China ap parently arc not going to turn the other check reasoning, perhaps, that the Jap* have too much al ready. 111 The good neighbor policy ha* always existed between the United State* and Canada, probably be cause they're not always contin ually borrowing from one another 111 Although an entire ocean sep arates us from the undeclared war tn Asia, we have no guarantee that It will stay Pacific. 1 1 1 Business on the west coast in getting on a solid foundation, with the cement Industry enjoying one of Its biggest year* 1 1 1 Southern Oregon's highway* carry a heavy traffic burden, but they don't shoulder it very well since the advent of wide truck* 111 With pinball case* shifted to Oregon courtrooms, there can be no doubt that their ojrcraUon is a game of skull. 1 1 1 Making your mark In the world is a lot more fun than toeing It 111 Tearing another leaf off the calendar reminds us that soon autumn will be doing the name thing to trees 111 Theater Star and Bit Player Honeymoon Headline We thought so, too, but didn't want to blurt it out like that 1 1 1 Clara Bow ha* returned to Hol lywood, but It don’t mean a thing any more 111 Although crooners sing off-scale they seem to get a weigh with it. RURAL SCHOOLS VARY ___ OPENINGS Exceptions to the opening of Jackson county schools either Sep tember fl or 7, according to County Supt C R. Bowman, will be the Watkins school, which opened Monday of this week; Eagle Point, which will open September 9; Phoenix and Central Point, Mon day, September 13. and Prospect, which will open late In the month ’ in a new building still under con struct ion Opening Monday, September B, will be Ruch, Talent, Mt Pitt, Jacksonville, Neil Creek, Ix>st Creek, Table Rock. Lone Pine, Willow Springs, Antelope, Sams Valley, Independence. Herby, Sterling, North Phoenix. Meadows. Rogue River, Thompson Creek, Applegate, Trail, Gold Hill, Evans Valley, Liberty, Anderson Creek, Pinehurst, Shady Cove, Little Butte, Howard, Medford, West Side and Alderbrook. Ashland, Griffin Creek, Wagner Creek, Agate, Fern Valley, Reese Creek, Uniontown and Oak Grove schcxtls will open Tuesday, Sep tember 7, ------------ •------------ McReynolds Here for Licensing Laggards Ward McReynolds, state exam iner of operators and chauffeurs, is at the city hall today between the hours of 11 a. m and 5 p. m. to conduct examinations for all persons wishing to obtain driving permits. Recent checking of all cars on the Klamath Falls route is char acteristic of the present campaign by state police to enforce the law that all Oregon drivers must have proper credentials to operate an automobile and emphasizes im portance of the examiner's visit here for those who have sot y* applied for new licensee. Parking Rules Effective Tuesday AREA restricted for one-hour parking will include ail Of Main street from Church street to Third, Including the Plaza. Hour limit will extend from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. week day* and from M a. tn. till 9 p. m. Saturday*. Sunday* and holi day* Mill I m - excepted. Double parking will be legal only when a licensed driver I* left in the vehicle, which mu*t not t>e left »binding more than 12 Inche* into the street from properly parked cars. Double parking privilege* are for emer gencies only, or for loading or unloading of passenger* or |MM'kage*. No car may be dou ble-parked under any circum stances more than five minutes. Truck* must load and unload at rear entrances of all Main street establishments where al leyways will permit. Truckers must obtain |>ollce ¡s-rmit to uiilnad on Main street wherever rear delivery Is not practicable. Drivers of vehicles who fall to comply with the above regu lations will be given a warning ticket for first breach, and will I m - given arrest summons for second violation of the same rule. Warning ticket* will include copy of traffic rules for infor mation of offenders. Persons riding bicycles must observe all traffic rules the same a* automobiles and must have a light In front and a red reflector In rear of their wheels after dark. I ASHLAND'S four public schools will c*|M-n Tuesday, September 7 Tlie previous «lay, laibor day, will see a general teachers' insti tute at H a. m. and a meeting of prlnci|mls at 1:30 p. m, ac cording to Supt of Schools G A Briscoe A large number of student* reg istering this week for course* in the high school indicates, accord ing to Principal B C. Forsythe, that an increase over last year'* enrollment of more than 300 1* likely. Speaking of high school enroll ment, Forsythe yesterday «aid. “Of course, it is impossible to give definite figures with pre-reg- ist ration still in progress, but, Judging from present enrollment cards, I believe we will have an appreciably Increased attendance this full ” Instructors Marshall Woodell and Elliott MacC’racken have been assisting Forsythe in registrations this week. In IJncoin and Washington grade schools, and Ashland Jun ior high schools, pre-opening Im provements have been completed , and the educational plants are in I readiness for the thrdngs of stud ent* early next week !ji*t year'» faculty members of I the four schools will renew ac quaintance* and new teachers will 1 be Introduced at a school board reception to lx- held at 5:30 p m next Friday at the Oak street residence of Mr and Mrs Hal McNair. Ashland’s fifth institution of learning, the state op-rated South ern Oregon Normal school, will open its doors to student* Monday, September 20. according to Wal ter Redford, president of the col Following a conference with lege state highway commissioners in • Medford Wednesday evening. Frank Van Dyke. Chamber of Commerce president, announced that the date selected by the group for the official opening cere Declared a nuisance by Chief of monies of the new Siskiyou high PoIlM C P Talent, the public way will be October 20, thus al «lance which has been operated lowing time for the road board Friday evenings for the past sev members to return from a conven eral months at the Moose hall by tion to be held in Boston late this Rodney Garrett, was ordered month Completion date for the closed for an indefinite period highway will be about September after last week's crowd became 15. In the party which arrived in disorderly, annoying resident* on Third street, who turned in com Medford Wednesday and which was enroute from an inspection plaints Garrett was unable to control tour of Klamath Falls and I-ake o' patrons, although he ejected some the Woods, were R H. Baldock. dancer* Noise and obscene lan state highway engineer; District guage annoyed the neighborhood Engineer Lytle of Roseburg; H. and the vicinity was littered with B Glaisyer, commission secretary, empty bottles City license was and Commissioners F L. Tou- suspended for dancing in the hall Velle, E B Aldrich and Henry F. ------------ •------------ Cabell, chairman A committee will be appointed by Van Dyke to form plans for the celebration, including invita tion to other cities in this state and California to participate. Mothballs were shaken out of ----------- •----------- Jacket and sweater pockets this DRIVES TO YREKA week as temperature* hit the skids Guy Lewis made a business trip for a maximum of 72 degrees Monday, accompanied by .17 inch to Yreka Monday, staying over night with his brother. Carl I^ewts, es of rainfall. Although there has been some at Etna Mills before returning to rise in temperatures as the week Ashland Tuesday. ------------ •------------ progressed, the advent of fall has been obvious enough to slow down • Mr and Mrs Wayne Cowdrey the tomato crop, forcing the Bag- and children visited Mr. and Mrs. ley cannery to run spasmodically. R F. Parks Sunday. SET DATE FOR HIGHWAY FETE Police Cancel Moose Hail Dance Permit Mercury Shrivels As Autumn Nips at Sun Suggestions for Culture and Polish! By LARRY HUNTER * Soon bt41s will ring, And then the thing To do is study hard. And don’t be late Or you won’t rate A satisfactory card! So, do not shirk From good hard work. That’s all that counts, remember! (Though, while we’re talking, Ain’t it queer That apple-picking time’s So near When school starts in September?) Bicycles for Defense of Japan TUESDAY IS SET AS INAUGURAL FOR CHECKING RANKLING traffic situation which has festered in Ashland since adoption of parallel parking, cluttering the business district with erring delivery trucks and double-parked private passenger vehicles for hours at a time, will come to a head Tuesday morning when city police inaugurate a new regime of cracking down on of fenders in an effort to promote greater public Bafety and conven ience. Starting at 8 a m. that day, Chief of Police C. P. Talent's force will see that all traffic regulations - which have been on statute books here for some time -are enforced, with special regard to the maintenance of a clear route through the restricted area from Church street on North Main to the intersection of Third and East Main streets. Hourly checking will be made in that district by Assistant Chief M. P. Dunn, whose ad«iitional dut ies will be shifted to other mem bers of the police squad, the ad dition of Patrolman Parker Hess to regular duty coming as a cli max to repeated recent protest against intolerable traffic condi tions. due chiefly to a lack of adequate personnel to patrol the town previously. Talent said this week, “You may quote me as saying that I heartily appreciate the publicity and sup port which the Miner has given me on this issue. "After conference with Mayor Wiley and other city officials, they have agreed to approve the extra expense necessary to success of the move. From now on we will be able to keep close watch on drivers and correct their faults.” Rules will call for a one-hour parking limit throughout the re stricted area, double-parking only when curb space is not available and, if necessary, only for a per iod not to exceed five minutes, during which time a licensed driv er must be in the car—which can not be standing more than a foot from the car at the curb. Truck drivers will be compelled to use back entrances wherever accessible for loading and unload ing, and to obtain a police permit for stores where it is necessary to use front doors. Tickets will be placed on wind- (Continued on page 6) A A collecUon of worn out bicycles collected from dealers ui iu*> meh wAt sold as scrap iron for the benefit of a public fund tor the .«tional defense. Distressed Farmers Urged To Seek Aid In Debt Adjustment BRISCOE TELLS SCHOOL RULES George A. Briscoe, city superin tendent of schools, this week is sued the following set of regula tions governing entrance into Ash land schools: “As formerly, the division line for the grades is Third and Gresh am streets. Those pupils living on the east side of these streets will go to Washington school, with the exception of those living on the south end of Vista street, and all those south of Iowa street. The people who live west of these streets or the extensions of them, will go to the Washington school. “Beginners whose age is six years on or before October 15, 1937. may enter school at this time. However, the administration is asking that the beginners who wish to come, enter school not later than Monday, September 13. This is necessary because begin ning school is a difficult thing for beginners and for teachers who have those rooms. If pupils are Fifteen growling Grizzlies ap accepted at any time the teacher, peared Wednesday and Thursday instead of devoting her work to afternoons at the high school in the progress of pupils who enter answer to Coach Forrest (Skeet) school regularly, is devoting her O'Connell's pre-season call for time to pupils who are entering candidates for the 1937 Red and school late. For this reason the White football machine—and 15 teachers and the principals of the warm, pink tongues were hanging grade buildings are to refuse be out at the close of the workouts ginning pupils after Monday, Sep as unaccustomed exercise got in tember 13 its digs. “If there are young men and O'Connell checked the boys off. young women in town who for issued suits and held a brief ball some reason or other have failed handling practice Wednesday Yes to enter high school on the com terday's session was more intens pletion of the eighth grade work ive with the boys taking several here or elsewhere, the school will turns around the field before lay be glad to do what it can for them CLARENCE LITWILLER ing to for an hour of calisthenics, provided they enter at the begin having a last fling at some traf passing, punting and touch foot ning of the school year.” fic business by chasing a re ------------•------------ ball. porter from curb to curb. Reluctant to make predictions ARB A (Just Call Me Prof) so early in the year. O'Connell AGER laboring along under a nevertheless said. "We’ll have a heavy load of newly-acquired big. fast team. Some of the boys pedagogic dignity. are inexperienced but they should MIKE (A Barking Seal Never Miss Wanda Schwein, daughter Bites) WOLCOTT making a whip into as good a team as played here last yetir All of those of Mrs. Belle Schwein, was united bottle of suds last an hour at returning from last year will in marriage with Alan Prescott, the foot of the Chateau slide. weigh in several pounds heavier son of Mr. and Mrs. W G. Pres FRANK VAN DYKE unleash to the man than they did in 1936 cott, in a service which took place ing oratory as he stumbled over and I look for several of them to at 9 o'clock Monday morning at the rear bumper of a blue develop into mighty clever play the home of the bride's mother Packard. The Rev D. E Nourse read the ers HERB and LOIS MOORE re “Right off the bat our schedule service. ceiving fan mail from two movie is plenty tough, with lots of home Following an informal wedding actors. games, so the fans here can look breakfast and reception. Mr. and CLIFF (Apron Strings) forward to all the excitement they Mrs. Prescott left immediately for BROMLEY being sent home southern California where they single until he is old enough to can wish for." Passes and pass receiving was will spend their honeymoon. know better. They will return in the middle a little ragged in the opening days' C. V. FLANDERS demon practice, although Joe Jessell and of the month to this city, where strating hydraulics and nearly Delbert (Tiny) Jones were getting Prescott is operator of the Palace braking a policeman's neck. down under a good share of every cafe. BIG CHIEF STEALUM -------'■---- •------------ thing the backs could throw. THUNDER GREEN double Leonard Warren will be missed parking on a Miner editorial. from his halfback post where he Whoo-hoo-hoo! Ugh! Ugh! shone last season. He demonstrat-' DOROTHY (Porch-Climber) ed that fact well last night by BROMLEY doing a human fly dressing and giving the rest of the Announcement was made this escape act. lads an elusive target as he re week of the marriage of Miss AUBREY MILES making turned punts. Ethel Ellsworth, sister of Ger more noise than the trucks he Most promising in the kicking trude Dodson of this city, and defends. department appeared to be little Lowell Brown, Union Oil company LEE RYAN using his new Charlie Warren. quarterback, agent for Ashland, Saturday, Aug theater as a billboard for the whose added size and weight this ust 28, in Vancouver, Wash old one. year will stamp him as one of Both young folks arc well known JIMMIE (Forget - Me - Not) the toughest backs in the confer locally, the bride having attended VOSS exploring for the Lost ence. He flashed out prominently SONS for several terms and Pole. with good port-sided performances Brown being the latest of the EI-LEN MERRYMAN won as a passer aS well as laying down "marrying” Llthian baseball play dering if the board forms were better-than-average punts Others ers to catch the double-harness going to be left on ths Nsw bug. IJ thia thoatsr front. (Continued on page 6) J. W. DEREMIAH, county " rural rehabilitation suiter visor, this week urged all famter* who are financially dh.tre«ned or in danger of los ing their home* to contact hint at 316 Liberty building, Medford, or apply to the Dis trict Farm Debt Adjustment *ii|>ervi»or, K«-*ettlement Ad ministration, Mayer building, Portland, for aid under the farm debt adjustment section of the resettlement admlni»- t ration program which is be ing continued in Oregon. No charge Is made for ad visory service. 15 TURN OUT FOR HI SCHOOL GRID Prescot t-Schwein Rites Monday Event Ellsworth, Brown Wed In Surprise Ceremony
